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Real estate suits closer to closing (access required)

By Sharon McCloskey
Published: June 4,2012

Two class actions against South Carolina real estate brokerages charged with conspiring to restrain competition can move forward, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.


The good news for DOT? It won court ruling. (access required)

By Sharon McCloskey
Published: May 31,2012

The bad news? Legal scholars and judges wonder if agency’s land acquisition process is constitutional


No way on the highway (access required)

By Sharon McCloskey
Published: May 17,2012

The notion of a bypass around U.S. 74 from Charlotte into Union County had been kicking around for years before the newly formed Turnpike Authority in 2007 proposed the construction of a 20-mile toll road that would run parallel to U.S. 74, skirt Monroe and connect to the Interstate 485 beltway southeast of Charlotte.


Developer’s tricky financing results in $1.3M award (access required)

By Sharon McCloskey
Published: March 5,2012

Elderly couple trusted 
their farm to a man who 
sold the land but never 
paid back the notes